The best Lola Bessis’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Lola Bessis’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Lola Bessis.
Persian Lessons
7.4/10
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Mr & Mme Adelman
7.3/10
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.
A Mermaid in Paris
5.7/10
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.
Thirst Street
6/10
Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.
Nighthawks
3.5/10
Wide-eyed Midwest transplant Stan agrees to play wingman to his calculating and privileged roommate Chad as they embark upon an exploration of glittering New York nightlife, whose darkest secrets are held captive by an elite band of millennials known as Nighthawks.
Loving
7.6/10
A set of stolen moments, captured in the privacy of different people. Couples, whether straight or gay, mixed or not share kisses, caresses, and smiles.
Swim Little Fish Swim
5.9/10
Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
Ce qui nous lie
At a family garage, on the eve of its impending closure, a customer drops off her car for a simple tune-up. There's nothing special about the car, except that it is the last.
